- Romanian Museum in Chicago- Folk Costumes of Moldova and Basarabia
1. Until about 1880, women wore only one wrap-around style apron (fota. ) The basic colors were black and red.
2. By the turn of the 20th century, the "FOTA" wasn't anymore part of the women folk costume.
3. Starting late 19 century and early 20 century, women wore two rectangular aprons called (in most areas) catrinte. Married women wore 2 "catrinte." Girls (not married) wore 1 "catrinta" in the front.
Colors were mostly black and red; also blue, yellow, green were used for embroidery.
4. Between 1900 and 1914 many school teachers from Muntenia (mostly MUSCEL) went to Basarabia, bringing their folk clothes with them, thus "fota" appeared again as part of the folk costumes (but not fota "moldoveneasca;" it was fota "musceleana")
5. Between 1920 and 1950 peoples were discouraged from wearing folk dresses.
6. Today, in the 3rd millennium, there is a revival of the folk costumes. Nowadays in Basarabia most costumes are similar to Moldova or Bukovina costumes
